
Issue 140
October 1995
180 Degrees
Your track-by-track guide to this month's free Mute CD
Stereolab
Chris sharp mixes a kitsch cocktail with pop's playful
subversives
Melvin Van Peebles
Hanspeter Kuenzler reinvents black music with the ghetto
statesmen
John Surman
Stuart Nicholson traces the musical odyssey of an English
original
Derrick May
Desmond Hill meets an urban pioneer of sonic science fiction
Unnatural Highs
Biba Kopf ascends to heaven with a choir of countertenor
singers
Jah Wobble
peter Shapiro talks yings, hangs and low end theories with the bass
raider
Ornette Coleman
Howard Mandel is granted an audience with the high priest of
harmolodics
Mick Harvey
Louise Gray discusses the sex life of Serge Gainsbourg with a Bad
Seed
Editorial/Letters
In the Ambient world, war has broken out...
Sounding Off
Live events, happenings, music on TV and radio in October
Bites
NON, Dirty Three, Ntshuks Bonga, Jocelyn Pook, Ascension
Global Ear: Sydney
peter Jordan hears music on the other side of the world
Charts
Playlists from the outer reaches of planet sound
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David Toop
Does sex belong in music?
Soundcheck
October's CDs and albums - reviewed, revered, reviled
Print Run
new music books: rewriting blues history, a flawed pop
encyclopedia, Braxton feted
Multimedia
Entering the subterranean world of Robert Wilson and Hans Peter
Kuhn